Andhra State

Andhra ( Telugu: ఆంధ్ర Andhra [ ɑ ː nd ʰ rʌ ] ) was a short-lived state in India. It was created in 1953 from the northern parts of the State of Madras and united in 1956 with the Telangana region of erstwhile Hyderabad state to the state of Andhra Pradesh. The state of Andhra regions included the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema of the current state of Andhra Pradesh. The capital was Kurnool.

The area Andhras came in the late 18th century under British rule and was incorporated into the Madras Presidency, one of the administrative units of British India. The Madras Presidency was an ethnically and linguistically inhomogeneous field: while in its southern part mainly Tamil was spoken, was in the region of Andhra, which constituted its northern part, Telugu is the predominant language. Even during the British colonial era, there were from the 1920s, efforts to solve the Telugu areas of Madras. After India became independent in 1947, showed the state of the same name from the Madras Presidency. After Indian independence, the demands for a Telugu state of Andhra were louder. In particular, the association of the city of Madras ( now Chennai ), in which a large minority of Telugus lived next to a Tamil majority, became the point of contention. Reached its climax in the Andhra agitation with the death of Potti Sriramulus, who died in Madras on December 16, 1952 after a nearly two-month hunger strike. On December 19, the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to the establishment of the state of Andhra. On October 1, 1953 Andhra was finally established from the eleven Telugu districts in the northern part of the State of Madras. Madras City nevertheless remained the same State, emerged from the later today Tamil Nadu. The district Bellary came because of its predominantly Kannada speaking population to the state of Mysore, who later became Karnataka.

The founding Andhras was the first step to a reorganization of the states of South India by linguistic criteria. Three years later it was finally completed by the States Reorganisation Act. As a result of the reorganization itself Andhra united on 1 November 1956, the Telugu parts of the erstwhile state of Hyderabad, the Telangana region, the state of Andhra Pradesh with its capital Hyderabad. To ensure that all Telugu areas were now united in one state. 1960 was a minor boundary correction between Andhra Pradesh and Madras. Soon after the founding of Andhra Pradesh but developed resistance to the cohesion of the state. 1969 was formed in Telangana movement which demanded an independent state. In response, the Jai Andhra movement, which called for the independence of Andhras formed in Andhra. After the Telangana agitation has started to pick up again since 2009, the division of Andhra Pradesh has been put up for debate.